Building intellectual capital of specialists in the context of digital transformation of the Russian economy

The differences between the parameters of the digital economy currently being formed and the corresponding parameters of the outgoing industrial economy are presented. Herein it is noted that the digital transformation of economic relations ensures high competitiveness of production systems and makes it necessary to increase training of specialists who will create such systems and manage them. It is shown that nowadays the quality of the intellectual capital is becoming the basic competitive advantage of countries and their organizations. The authors emphasize that in the context of the digital economy creativity of specialists is the key parameter of strategic advantages of organizations and determines performance and efficiency of production processes. The article justifies the need for the faster transfer to the intelligent model of the sustainable development of society where personal creativity is always in demand. It proves reasonability of development of a new concept of specialists training for industrial enterprises and ways of its realization in Russian universities. It is suggested replacing the conventional model of specialists training in universities by a new flexible modular model the basic parameters of which are material and information resources, production processes, modules and services.